What’s with the found animal trend?
Maybe it’s just me and it’s not the weirdest thing happening on tiktok, but I don’t get it. My feed is littered with fake animal rescue videos. While the creators are many, the script is the exact same in each case: an apprently abandoned wild baby animal (mostly fox, raccoon, deer, otter) approaches a hand, they take it home, give it a scrub, dry it with hair dryer, bottle feed it, and then pet it. Next shot, the animal is grown, quite obviously a different animal, living with new people previously not seen in the video, different location etc. The whole editing totally lacks consistency and screams fake. I started to watch some genuine animal rescue channels and a few months later the algo gives me nothing but this crap. Like every second video in my feed. Why do so many people bother to create this kind of BS? You can’t even make a buck off of it.
